CHAOS IN GAZA

HAVE THESE PEOPLE NO UNDERSTANDING OF IRONY? POLICE STORMING A GOVERNMENT BUILDING TO PROTEST LAWLESSNESS?!

Palestinian police storm offices in Gaza Strip.
GAZA (Reuters) - About 200 policemen stormed government offices in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Monday to protest at the failure of the Palestinian Authority to fight growing lawlessness, witnesses said.

The incident was the latest sign of chaos in Gaza, which has suffered growing internal unrest since Israel withdrew last September after 38 years of occupation. Firing into the air as they ran through the streets, the policemen raided government offices, courthouses, an election office and the municipality building in Rafah. They smashed windows at the Interior Ministry building and forced the staff to leave.

NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE IT:

Gunmen storm Gaza government office: witnesses
GAZA (Reuters) - About 20 Palestinian gunmen stormed into a government office in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to protest the arrest of a suspect in the kidnappings of three Britons, witnesses said.

The incident highlighted the growing violence in Gaza that is threatening January parliamentary elections. Unrest has mushroomed since Israel quit the coastal strip in September. Members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of the mainstream Fatah movement, forced their way inside the Interior Ministry in the town of Rafah, demanding the release of their colleague, after burning tires and shooting. The office was empty of personnel, witnesses said. Palestinian sources said officials were in contact with the gunmen by telephone and trying to persuade them to leave. All were armed with assault rifles and some brandished rocket-propelled grenade launchers which they threatened to shoot, witnesses said.

The Britons, human rights worker Kate Burton, 25, and her parents, Helen and Hugh, were freed on Friday after two days in captivity in a kidnapping claimed by a previously unknown group that called itself the Brigades of the Mujahideen-Jerusalem.